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n° 25-26 - autumn 2007/summer 2008
China, ‘Communist Variant’ of capitalism / Communist International - Two Reports on Fascism by the delegate of the Communist Party of Italy: Introduction (2008) - 4th Congress, 1922 - 5th Congress, 1924 / Fascism and Antifascism / The Italian Left and the International (part 10 - continued from Communist Left, no.19-20): IV - The Founding of the Communist Party of Italy: Livorno 1921: IV.3 - The political tendencies inside the PSI: b. The Maximalists (cont.) - c. The Communist Fraction: The Milan Meeting of October 15th - An Historical Necessity - b - The Imola Congress - c. Towards the Communist Party / Capitalist Development and the American Civil War (Part 3): The Civil War as the key moment in the subjugation of the black and white proletariat to the requirements of a rapacious bourgeoisie: A War of Long Duration - The Crucial Year - The “March to the Sea” - The Emancipation of the Slaves - The White Proletariat / Life of the Party, Reunion Reports: – A Productive Party Meeting at Viareggio, June 3-4, 2006 [RG95]: The Crisis of Capital - The Rearming of the States - The American Workers’ Movement - Balance Sheet of the Islamic ‘Revolution’ - Italy: Bigotted and Machiavellian - The origin of the trade unions in Italy - Anti-militarism in the Workers’ movement - The Jewish Question – Working Meeting in Turin, September 23-24, 2006 [RG96]: Chronology of Lebanese history - Course of the Economy - The Jewish question / Giandomenico

n° 23-24 - spring 2006/winter 2007
The war in the Middle East and the Destruction of Lebanon / The Courageous strike of the Teheran tram-drivers / Struggles in France against the latest attacks on job security, January-March 2006 / Our Last Farewell to Fortunato Benedetti / Marking Out the Foundations (Prometeo, No 1, 1946) / Schematic Chronology of the Chinese National Epic: Gestation and revolutionary anguish - Anti-imperialist Revolution-Anti-communist Counter-revolution - 1949: The birth of the Popular Republic - The colossal agrarian problem - Struggles inside the Party-State - China becomes part of the imperialist chess-game / The Italian left and the International: The Imola congress, Towards the communist party,  / Capitalist Development and the American Civil War (Part 2): The last year of peace - The 1860 elections - Secession - The deployment of forces - Total War / UK: A Strike Against the Latest Attack on Workers Pensions, March 2006 / UK: ‘Left’ Trade Union Leaders avoid the Class struggle: Vauxhall Strike at Ellesmere Port in May - The Shop Floor Workers walk-out - No Sign of Class Struggle from the 'Left' TU Leaders / Reunion Reports: An Excellent Party Meeting at Cortona, 1-2 October 2005 [RG93]: Antimilitarism and the Workers' Movement - Italian Ideology, The Post-resistance Bloc - Origin of the trade unions in Italy: Fascism and War - Course of the Crisis - Iran, balance sheet of the “Islamic Revolution” - The War in Iraq - The Jewish Question, Universalisms in Conflict / The Spring 2006 Meeting at Parma [RG94]: American Workers' Movement - Origin of the Trade Unions in Italy - Italic history and ideology - Iran, balance-sheet of the “Islamic revolution” - The History of Modern Iraq - The Jewish Question

n° 21-22 - spring 2005/winter 2006
Comrade Livio has Passed Away / New Orleans, Ignorance-Impotence-Rapacity / Terrorism, Anti-Proletarian in Two Senses: The Iraqi working class and the various guises of its bourgeois enemy - The terrorist attack in Madrid - Terrorist Attacks in London - Bourgeois Terrorism against the International Proletariat / Iraq, Against collaborationists and resistance fighters: "Errors", or a necessity? - Towards the Destruction of the Unitary State - The Social Situation and the Task of the Proletariat / Theses on the Chinese Question, "Marseilles Theses", 1964: Introduction - The Revolutions of the East: Character and Perspectives - Democracy and the Proletariat: The National Question - From the Russian Revolution to the Canton Commune: the Revenge of the Mensheviks - Peasant "Socialism" and the "New" Democracy - Impotent Petit-Bourgeois Reformism - Rivalries in the Bourgeois East / Marxism and the unions (Part 1): Introduction - 1. The "young Hegelian" Marx - 2. Marx and the "Rheinische Zeitung" - 3. The proletariat identified as the revolutionary class - 4. The Paris Manuscripts - 5. Labour in a post-capitalist society / Capitalist Development and the American Civil War, The Civil War as the key moment in the subjugation of the black and white proletariat to the requirements of a rapacious bourgeoisie, Report presented to the May 2002 and January 2003 Party Reunions: The United States in the mid Nineteenth Century - North and South - The 'Peculiar' Institution - The Missouri Compromise - The Midwest - The 1850s, The Decisive years / Reunion reports: An intense party meeting, Cortona, 2-3 October 2004 [RG90]: Marxist Economy - The Self-knowledge of the Italian Bourgeoisie - Anti-militarism and the Workers' Movement - The History of Modern Iraq - The Jewish Question Today - Trade Union Work amongst the Railway Workers. Working meeting at Florence, January 29th and 30th, 2005 [RG91]: Course of capitalism - History of modern Iraq - Origins of trade unions in Italy - Russian capitalism, post 1991 / Mass Sackings and Wildcat Strikes at Heathrow / Heads roll in the UK unions

n° 19-20 - 2004
Iraq: War as Form of Government / The Counter-Revolution and the Spanish Imperialist War, Three articles from Bilan (1936-37): Foreword (translated form Il Partito Comunista, no.148, April 1986) - The "Popular Front" triumphs in Spain (Bilan no. 28, March-April 1936) - Against the imperialist front for the massacre of Spanish workers we must oppose the class front of the international proletariat (Bilan no. 34, August-September 1936) - The Spanish imperialist war and the massacre of the asturian miners (Bilan no. 44, October-November 1937) / June 1944 - Manifesto of the Communist left to the proletarians of Europe / The Italian Left and the Communist International (Part 9, Proletarian struggles betrayed by the PSI and the CGL: The political tendencies inside the PSI - The Turatian right - The Maximalists) / Towards the Rebirth of the Working Class trade Union (from "Il Partito Comunista", no.205, 1992) / Origins and History of the English Workers Movement (Part 6, Karl Marx and the Chartists: The Communist League - The last days of the Chartism) / UK - Workers frustration and Outbursts of Strikes headed off by the Union Leaders: Preparing for the 2003 Trades Union Congress - Discontent contained at the TUC - A Late Autumn Strike Wave - The Response of the Postal - Workers - Other Workers in Dispute (December 2003) / Usa - The Southern California grocery strike Portrait of a regime union in action / Party Interventions: Italy: The public transport workers' strike An example for all workers (3 December, 2003) - Usa: Solidarity with striking and locked-out grocery workers For a class union (February 2004) - Usa: Ignore the elections Unleash the class war.

n° 18 - Summer-Autumn 2003
Against Capitalist War! Against Capitalist Peace! / Social and Class issues underlie the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy /  The Italian Left and the Communist International (Part 8): The Trade Union Question - The Italian Question - The Formation of the National Sections - The Founding of the Communist Party of Italy: Livorno 1921 / Origin and History of the English Workers Movement (Part 5, Chartism, 1837-1847: The National Convention -The Newport rebellion - The National Charter Association - The Great General Strike of 1842 - O'Connor's Landplan, The last gasp or Utopianism) / On Marxism, Law and Revolution: Academic Acrobatics - Structure and Superstructure - The Abolition or the Withering Away of the State? - Victory of Communism, Not of Socialist Law - The Legal Structure of the October Revolution - Gramsci on State and law / Report from the USA, False security : Iraq and Beyond - Union struggles  / Increased Exploitation in the UK Postal Service: The Reaction of the Communication Workers Union - Union cooperation in the restructuring plans - How the Redundancies will take place.

n° 17 - Special edition - Six Articles on Disasters and the Nature of Capitalism - (£2/$5)
Introduction - Filling and bursting of bourgeois civilization - Murder of the dead - The legend of the Piave - Weird and wonderful tales of modern social decadence - The doctrine of the body possessed by the devil - The spirit of horse-power (Articles originally published in Battaglia Comunista nos. 23 and 24, 1951; il Programma Comunista no. 20, 1963; no. 17, 1956; Battaglia Comunista no. 21, 1951; il Programma Comunista no.5, 1953, respectively).

n° 15-16 - Spring-Summer 2002 - (£2/$5)
The Capitalist regime uses Terrorism and anti-terrorism to force the Proletariat into the Third Imperialist War / A “Peace Process” for Capitalism in Ireland / Origin and History of the English Working Class ( Part 4, The beginning of the 19th century:  Economy and subordinated classes - Political Unrest - The Radical Movement - First Unions of Industrial Workers - Utopian Reformism - Trade Union Legality) / Biodiversity and Capitalism: Part 2 - The rain forests / The Italian left and the International (part 7 - The Communist Party and Parliamentarism / UK: A Further Integration of the Unions into the State / Chaos and Disruption in the British Postal System / Manchette (What Distinguishes Our Party) / Reunion Report - Genoa, 26-27 May 2001.

n° 14 - Autumn 2000 - (£1/$2.50)
Algeria, Yesterday and Today / The Explosive Potential of the Indonesian Working Class / The Italian left and the International (part 6) / Origin and History of the English Working Class: Emergence of the Proletarian Movement (Part 3: 1780-1815, Emergence of the proletarian movement - London Corresponding Society - Mutinies - Luddism - First Trade Unions) / UK: Carworkers under Attack / Biodiversity and Capitalism / Deadly Embraces (an article about our attitude towards other groups 'on the Left') / Reunion report.

n° 12/13 - Summer 1999  - (£2/$5)
Origin and History of the English Workers Movement (Part 2: the Bourgeois Revolution / The Italian Left and the International (part.5) / Communist Organisation and Discipline (Prometeo 1924) / Notes on the Opposition between Capitalist and Socialist Economics / A Growing Anger at the Trade Union Leaders / the Liverpool Dockers Dispute, a Summing Up (or how not to conduct a strike) / Yet Another Appalling TUC Annual General Gathering / Australia: Wharfies still under Attack / Articles on disputes in the USA: All-out Strike at General Motors. A Nice Test of Strength by the New York Buiding Workers / Leaflets on the Kosovo War: Down with the Imperialist War! Now as Before, War on War.

n° 10-11 - 1997 - (£2/$5)
Origins and History of the English Workers Movement (part 1: Primitive accumulation) / Articles on the 1926 General Strike. Introduction. The tactics of the Comintern: 1) Anglo-Russian Committee (1926). "Mac Donald in Power" - Prometeon° 20, 1929. "Capitalism's mortal Crisis" - Prometeo n°5, 1928. How to write history: a Critique of Hobsbawn. Position of the Left at the Sixth Enlarged ECCI (1926). The Comintern and the United Front / Archives: introduction. The Balkan war (1912). Interventions.

n° 9 - Autumn 1995 - (£1/$2.50)
British Labour Dumps Fake Socialism / Theses on the Trade Unions in Britain / The tactic of affiliating the CPGB to the Labour Party / Notes on the history of the Left: Stalinism's Victory over the Oppositions / From the Left's Archives: Letter to Korsch from the Left in October 1926 / The Italian Left and the International (part 4) - The struggle for a split in the Italian Socialist Party / Party Reunions / The Signal workers strike against Railtrack, June -September 1994.

n° 8 - Autumn 1994 - (£1)
The battle against the destruction of the Party - Introduction  / From the Archives of the Left: The Fraction's letter to the International secretariat / Introduction and Preface of the the 1952 edition. Straightening dogs' legs : ("Le gambe ai cani", Battaglia Comunista, n°11, 1952)./ Reunion Report / The need for workers' economic organizations / Current Events: Leaflet on Unemployment. Lecturers Strike. Postal workers strike.

n° 7 - April-September 1993 - (60p)
The Burial of the C.P.G.B - A Question of Traditions / The Italian Left and the Communist International (part 4) / Report on the 1919 Bologna Congress of the Socialist Party of Italy by Sylvia Pankhurst./ Current Events : The Season of Strikes in Italy - A Summing Up Britain - The Axe still Hangs Over the Mines / Reunion Reports.

n° 6 - July-December 1992 - (60p)
Marxism and the workers movement in Britain (part 4) / Auschwitz the Big Alibi / Race and Class / The Italian Left and the Communist International (part 3) / Introduction and Interview with Sylvia Pankhurst on the situation in England (published in Il Soviet in 1919) / The Party and the Trade Unions.

n° 5 - January-June 1992 - (60p)
US Riots, American Dream Under Fire – Yugoslavia: Not ethnic war but global imperialist conflict, Serbia another Sarajevo? – Russia: Liquidators Liquidated – Party's Theses: Nature and Communist Revolution: 1. The "ruin of all classes" - 2. The fetish character of the commodity - 3. Mystical Body - 4. Communist mysticism - 5. From the truly great economy to the truly great ecology. – An Historical Outline of the Union Movement in Argentina – The Italian Left and the Communist International (part 2) – Three Texts of the Italian Communist Left on Anarchism: Socialism and Anarchy, Il Soviet, no. 13, 16-3-1919; Socialists and Anarchists, Il Soviet, no. 2, 11-1-1920; Bolshevism defamed by the Anarchists, Il Soviet, no. 15, 23-5-1920 – A successful general reunion of the party at Turin – Current Events: London Underground Strike, Underground tremors hit capital; Ignore the elections, Continue the struggles (Leaflet on the Election in the U.K.)

n° 4 - 1991 - (60p)
Revolutionary Marxism and the War in the Gulf / The Party's Classical Theses and Evaluations on war (part 2) / The Italian Left and the International (part 1): The Italian Left and the Communist International 1919-1926  / Italy - The Metalworkers: Caught in the vice between Bosses and Unions / Reunion Reports / "Practical" Socialists by William Morris / Current Events: Reports from Argentina. Liverpool - Assault on all Fronts against the Workers.

n° 3 - July-December 1990 - (60p)
Against All Fatherlands / Marxism and the workers movement in Britain (part 3) / The Party's Classical Theses and Evaluation on war (part 1) / Reunion report / Unofficial Union Organizes strike in oil-fields / Big Stick in Poplar (1923) by Sylvia Pankhurst / Currents Events: Anti-Poll Tax Campaign. Gulf imperialist conflict.

n° 2 - January-June 1990 - (60p)
CPGB Lurching into Oblivion / Roast Beef of Old England / Marxism and the Workers Movement in Britain (part 2) / On the Thread of Time: Introduction. Marxism of the Stammerers / Life of the Party: Reunion Report / Current Events: Transport Strikes in Australia. Poll Tax Riots - Ruling Class says "No" to Violence. Trial and Terror in the U.K.

n° 1 - July-December 1989 - (60p)
Marxism and the English Workers Movement (part 1) / Ireland - Sinn Fein : from the Bullet to the Ballot? / Union Question : Introduction, Evolution and Dynamic of the Union Form  -  The Party and the Cobas / Current Events : The "Modernization" of the Labour Party. The Bourgeoisie and the "Social" Peace. East and West.